There was this elephant that suddenly appeared when I drew random doodles at school [link] and he looked so cute, I had to include him in a more meaningful piece of art. I love Frank so much now.
Thanks goes to =AlectorFencer for translating the German text into English the best way! Finally, she can see the picture it was for at all.

I think that less piano keys are made with ivory these days. Now they're rather made of plastic and/or wood (it's less expensive too). The result is the same.
Too many elephants got shot because someone thought their tusks should become popular for things as piano keys, fashion stuff, and jewels especially worn by women. In fact, some elephant races became extinct just for money, which is really nothing more than metal and paper (can't say that often enough)! Trading that with so many innocent lives for reasons like useless decoration and fashion is just... both brainless and heartless.
They hunted elephants and killed the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, aunts, uncles... just absolutely anyone who had tusks. The cubs, which were too young to have ivory, had to watch their family die, get their tusks cut off, till their bleeding corpses eventually were left on the place where they died. The cubs would stay by their dead family, sad, confused, and scared, till they eventually die of hunger or get eaten by carnivores which like baby elephants being totally unprotected.
I mean, imagine yourself experiencing that cruelity as a child!

If this pictures makes you go "Hahaha... aww!", I'm happy!

And don't ask me how Frank manages to play a piano, because I don't know!

Elephants are some of the coolest animals on earth, really. This picture is dedicated to thousands of them which got forgotten as a result of human beliefs, and unseen by the mentally blind.
Also, for all elephants which ended up in zoos, or circuses used for tasteless shows with the elephants getting painfully abused behind the scenes while their training, and living chained behind trailers. Their whole life.
And then people wonder why some circus elephants suddenly freaked out, crashed the show, and hurt (or even killed) people at random. They had great teachers, you know! May their trainers never rest in peace.

By the way, if you wanna see one of those scenes of elephants that freaked out in circuses, here it is: [link] (Watch from 05:19 to see the whole)
One of them ran out, being called a "damn motherf*cker" several times, then they shot him. End of the story of an abused circus elephant.
You should have seen that darkness in this elephant's eyes... shit, it is so scary.
I silently prayed to God He MUST give that elephant's soul the best paradise to come over his pains, and give the trainer's soul the worst hell to make him feel the same pain he had given to his animals.
I rarely pray. If God can't change people, I don't see a reason to pray. But maybe He can influence afterlife, at least.
Noones cares about the elephant's reasons why he acts like that, because it's "just" an animal and humans are 90% speciesists (they think that they are the best species God has ever created, and anyone else is less worth) because religions told them so.

I'm an "atheist" because I don't think that God is a human (and that a woman is made by a single rib of a man... if this is true, the most mothers wouldn't be so much more awesome than fathers bearing up against lifelong pain and suffering, both physically and mentally, STILL loving their family and trying to have peace no matter what they'd personally have to sacrifice for it).
I do not believe that the most cruel and sick species of this world is the image of God.
And if God creates life, he must be a mother, and not a man. For me, God is "mother nature". We're all connected to her. Water, food, air... feelings, spirit, heart, soul. You can feel that connection when you go out the city and to a nature place. If not, you're mentally blind and closed. Sorry.
Now go ahead and burn me for that I'm a witch.

I'd highly recommend watching the whole movie. The title is "Earthlings", and you can find it on Youtube easily.

It's awesome to see the truth instead of fiction.

Oh, and don't eat something before you watch it.
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